Data corruption is the damage of info caused by various software or hardware problems. Once a file gets damaged, it will no longer function correctly, so an app will not start or shall give errors, a text file shall be partially or fully unreadable, an archive will be impossible to open and then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of information getting damaged without any acknowledgement by the system or an administrator, which makes it a serious problem for web hosting servers as fails are very likely to occur on larger hard drives where significant volumes of information are placed. If a drive is a part of a RAID and the data on it is duplicated on other drives for redundancy, it's more than likely that the damaged file will be treated as a standard one and it'll be copied on all of the drives, making the damage permanent. A huge number of the file systems that run on web servers these days often are not able to discover corrupted files instantly or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server isn't working.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Website Hosting

The integrity of the data which you upload to your new cloud website hosting account will be guaranteed by the ZFS file system which we work with on our cloud platform. Most of the web hosting suppliers, including our company, use multiple hard disk drives to keep content and since the drives work in a RAID, the exact same data is synchronized between the drives at all times. In case a file on a drive is corrupted for whatever reason, yet, it is likely that it will be duplicated on the other drives since other file systems do not have special checks for that. In contrast to them, ZFS works with a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each file. In the event that a file gets damaged, its checksum won't match what ZFS has as a record for it, which means that the damaged copy shall be swapped with a good one from another drive. Since this happens immediately, there's no risk for any of your files to ever be corrupted.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you purchase one of our semi-dedicated hosting solutions, you will not have to be concerned about silent file corruption because we use ZFS - a high level file system which monitors all files in real time. Every time you upload a file to your account, ZFS will assign a unique digital fingerprint to it - the so-called checksum. The file will be synced between several NVMe drives for redundancy, so if one drive fails, the other ones will take over. ZFS compares the checksum of all copies on the different drives and if it detects a corrupted copy, it replaces it with a healthy one from another drive. This is done instantly, so there will be no threat for any part of your content at any time. By comparison, all of the other file systems perform checks after a system breakdown, but since they don't use anything similar to the checksums which ZFS uses, they will not detect silently corrupted files, so a bad copy could be replicated on the other disks as well and you could lose crucial information. Because this isn't the case with ZFS, we warrant the integrity of each file you upload no matter what.